America Is Dying. Only You Can Save It.

Day 1,153, 10:36 • Published in USA USA • by SamWystan

FINAL ISSUE EVER
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"...individuals' stated intentions often bear little relationship to the nature of their actions, because individuals often cannot or will not articulate their motives..." ~Rose Weitz, American sociologist


Defeated By My Own Country, Destroyed By Friends
It was a long battle last night. I knew it was about to be over when I noticed Alexander_Auctoritas ordering snipers around on the IRC (my supporters, there's a Wig name for you). Claire will tell you she spent all day handling misinformation. I will say the same. When I began running in earnest, it was no longer a PTO. But Rod Damon said it was, and that wasn't right. Rod Damon was wrong!


(I am as tired as he is)

Haliman came out pretty much against me. One of the few to stand up for me in the media was Leroy Combs, who was disgusted that PTO operations were being used against me. I'm not surprised though. Player Wigs have a lot more to lose than Admin Wigs.

None of you can ever really understand why this happened. As with The Fieldist few can discern my true opinions. Let me just say, that when I went to bed last night after Iasov had shot up with sniper votes, I fell asleep smiling.


People To Thank
There are so many.

First and foremost, I thank the America's Advancement Party. I have always been an AAP partisan, and was a member of their leadership. If I am a Libertarian, I am one in the original French sense of the word, which nowadays would be called a Left Libertarian.

I thank Ananias. Without him, there would be no Department of Fun under Scrabman. Those of you who flung up your hands in anger last night clearly are in need of one. I suggest you go assist Paul Proteus who's never seemed to lose his cool and always enjoyed himself.

I thank the newspapers and their writers, especially folks like Jythier Smith. There are great Americans who few Americans have heard of, but when we were young, we tried to get subs and we had newspaper wars.

I thank USNG, 3rd Division; Hari Michaelson, johnwoodman, loftedraptor, WahooBob etc. These are my first comrades, and also where I learned to hate Google Docs and bureaucracy. We fought for Mexico. It's a shame that so few of them stayed to see it conquered. Wait, Bob, weren't you my sergeant when I was a lieutenant? Wow, I can't believe I didn't remember that the whole time.


(How does it feel?)

The Christmas Movement. Thanks for being there and being organized. You were my first foray into anti-authority politics. You all should join with my supporters.

Dio has always been an aspiration of mine. Likewise Emerick also provided a good target for a level to achieve. I never reached their level, but hopefully I'll eclipse them to a new generation.

Claire Littleton wanted to see her name up here, and it truly does deserve to be her. Claire has/had? a magnetic pull to her. I worry that she expended it trying to fight me. Anyways, in the glory days, Claire made you want to get close to her, and it's something I was always attracted to. My relationship with Claire is probably as good a metaphor as any for my relation to power in this game: very distant, very close, and then utterly destroyed.

Wystan's Raiders, I created the patch before I created you, and enjoyed every second I saw the little patch with my initials on it, my RI anchor, and the userbar. Never forget.

Everyone else who believed in Fun.


Aftermath & To The Insurgents
Had I won last night, I would have done my best to convince the Libertarian leadership to stick around and train the party. Or build opposition in the party to me. I would not have stayed more than a month though, and would not have run for PP again.

To my supporters, now is the time to build. I have given three people a list of names. A list of those sick of the way things are going. Sick of Player Wigs. Sick of Admin Wigs who built a "social" game but failed to provide for the "social" aspect. Hopefully, these three apostles(?) will begin to talk to each other, and then begin the work of building a movement in time for Congressional elections. Perhaps they'll build a party. There's already an organization out there. Assist them. Even those who voted against me but believed in the real criticisms I had.


(With one I create, with the other I destroy)

CRoy said last night that this would have been really bad if there'd been an organized PTO threat from another country in another party. But there wasn't. So screw him (besides, we would have had a lot of fun that way). "If". If "ifs" and "buts" were cherries and nuts... "If" I'd won. Everyone is fair game for mockery. Start a satirical newspaper if you support me. Lampoon the powers that be. Trust me, they need it.

This was the best election I've ever witnessed. I'm a newb who never got old, never accepted the way things "had" to be. Look at my dates. Look at when I started, who I've known. I'm nearly 2 years old. Uncle Sam won the presidency the day after I joined. And I'm not alone. Old-timers as well as young players agree, we hate the fake government that makes us feel stupid and bad. Give us some freedom.


And Me?
Adapted from The Grapes of Wrath:
I'll be all around in the night. I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look, wherever there's a fight, so young players can run, I'll be there. Wherever there's a Player Wig beatin' up on a guy for being new or not doing things the "right way", I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way newbs smile when they've won and they try and change things, and when the people are playing the game, and tearing down the old systems, I'll be there, too.


(So long)

Last night, Iasov called the stuff beyond the game the "metagame". I think that's an accurate description of it. But it's all fake. It's only real because you give it consequence. We call this the "social imagination". Things that are perceived as real are real in their consequences. If you recognize the right of the FEC to sort through candidates and blockers, if you recognize Congress' right to do things beyond what the game has given them power to do, if you recognize the President's cabinet, you perceive them as real, and give them weight. If you spit in their eye, and say, "screw you, you're just a player, my word is as good as yours," you can accomplish anything. There is no limit. The only limit is the mediocrity of your own imagination.

In the end, every outrageous lie and joke I published in The Fieldist was just as real as any act of Congress or any Presidential order (Operation Taco Bell being the pinnacle of that).

I won't come back. So org vote this up for me. Do me a simple solid, and get this into the Top 5. Syrup, I'm looking at you.

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Wystan's Raiders: We Rock

Dear Raiders, you are great people. I have enjoyed commanding you. Continue the fight, and by the way, ALARM is pretty bad name for a militia.

Don't join the Libertarian Writers' Guild, it only exists in papers. Tibbets is dead!


Goodbye.

Play me out, Keyboard Cat!